More humor in Chinuk Wawa: Shake hands and go to hell
This installment is admittedly from the “Chinook Paper” but not directly in Chinook Jargon — read on to see the humor in it, and for a little lesson in Jargon.
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Why is ‘pole’ ʔísi[-]ɬn in Quinault Salish?
Is this Chinuk Wawa’s ísik ‘paddle’, loaned into the language of the central Washington Coast?
January 1895: “Our Monthly Budget”, Part 2a (local news and Métis early adopters of Chinook Writing)
Take a look at the names of “the first of them to write” Chinook Writing at Kamloops — do they all seem Métis to you?
1886, Tacoma, WA: Another northern “or”, and racial stereotyping
The other day, I showed the English word “or” showing up in the Northern Dialect of Chinook Jargon.
1868: S. Crease’s personal notes on early Northern Dialect
Sometimes we find a new, important document of Chinook Jargon inside an item that we already knew of!
Myron Eells’s hymn book (Part 6 “God’s Omniscience”)
Song #6 from Myron Eells’s little book, “Hymns in the Chinook Jargon Language“, 2nd (expanded!) edition (Portland, OR: David Steel, 1889):
1883, Waitsburg, WA: Hyiu Siwash
A bit north of Walla Walla, withing frontier times, a local Settler newspaper undermined its own message by complaining in a language Indigenous people understood.
Chinook Jargon in the news: John Rhoden’s sculpture
This one is Chinuk Wawa in the news in a roundabout way!
Kamloops Wawa pictures, part 16: A group of missionaries in BC
Indigenous readers of “Kamloops Wawa”, circa 1890’s, absolutely loved the rare treat of seeing pictures and photos.
Is the Cowlitz “prefix” yəx- actually a Chinuk Wawa numeral?
The entry yə́xa, yə́x- ‘only, nothing but’, in M. Dale Kinkade’s 2004 “Cowlitz Dictionary and Grammatical Sketch”, has got me asking for some explanations…